Building your academic career

Rebecca Boden, Debbie Epstein, Jane Kenway
London; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005

ISBN: 0761942327 (boxed set)

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Book description
This is one of six books comprising 'The Academic's Support Kit'. There is no strict order in which they should be read, it is recommended that you might read Building Your Academic Career both first and last.
Building Your Academic Career encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. The authors discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives. In the second half of the book they deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (resume) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.

About the author
Rebecca Boden, from England, is professor of accounting at the University of the West of England.
Debbie Epstein, a South African, is professor at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences.
Jane Kenway, an Australian, is professor of education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

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